Alternative culture today is a male attempt to rebuild twentieth-century gender norms by force.

Evidence

This was the Lumpenproletariat strain of the counter-counterculture. In Broderick’s view, it represented “a flattening of digital media, internet drama, and sex work, where all of it just ends up as more content on our timelines.” The hard-right manosphere remained niche, but once in solidarity with the Zynternet and the canceled celebrities, the counter-counterculture had become arguably the loudest and most influential nonmainstream force in American culture. This was what “alternative” now looked like in the twenty-first century: a loosely affiliated swarm of men trying to reassemble the remnants of twentieth-century gender norms by force. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 817

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘counter-counterculture’ as the Zynternet plus manosphere plus canceled celebrities — the key structural term for Marx’s arc.
• XREF: Connects to Marx’s earlier framework in the book about how subcultures get coopted; the counter-counterculture is the death-of-the-sellout endpoint.